Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private cars filled with propaganda rolled out of a Chicago terminal. They held bundles of pamphlets, screeching posters, loud bulletins ablaze with declaration. Also eight bead-eyed press agents and William Hale Thompson III, more commonly known for his bulk and his battering dominion over Chicago politics as "Big Bill." They were going out among the people of the cities of Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Ogden, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Emporia, Topeka, Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight...
Gene Tunney was escorted, after a welcoming demonstration by a Chicago mob, to his training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...
...bottom of a little ravine, snarling and mumbling as voices and footfalls came closer. Finally, surrounded by defeat, he gave a cry. Cursing and weeping, he threw down his gun. Officers talked in soothing tones, and then, because he refused to walk, dragged John Early to a car in which he must begin the journey back to a hated house, full of despairing creatures, a sad asylum...
...Newark, one August Frey saw a large automobile bearing down on him. He had just enough time to get across the street-no, he didn't have time- yes, he did have time . . .! As he stupidly hesitated, the car, moving slowly, knocked him flat...
...using telephoto, telegraph, cable, radio, photoradiogram, steamship, railroad, aeroplane and motor car, G. M. C. General Manager Leo M. Rumeley saved one to two weeks in informing his foreign dealers of Cadillac's new model...